Squashed beneath the seat of a train bound for Karachi, a frightened young boy hides in the hot dark from armed men searching for people who pray to a different god. Leaving behind his Mysore home that day in 1948 when Gandhi was assassinated and India was aflame with anti-Muslim violence, my father, like so […]
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In 1919, when soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer massacred between 379 and 1000 Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus assembled in Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh garden, the British Empire was the greatest superpower the Earth had ever seen and India was its prize acquisition, a jewel shining bright under a sun that never set.
Today, Lindsay Sandiford, a grandmother from Cheltenham, was sentenced to death in Indonesia for smuggling $2.6 million worth of cocaine. “It is well known that Indonesia takes a very intolerant approach to drugs trafficking and the death penalty for breaking such law is not an extraordinary sentence in this respect,” Freya Zaiwalla of Zaiwalla & Co
